Antislipping device



J. E. MILLER.

ANTISLIPPING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24. 1922.

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, UNHTE$ STATEg JOHN E. MILLER, OF OLEAN, NEW YORK.

ANTISLIPPING- DEVICE.

Application filed February 24, 1922. Serial No. 538,830.

proved detachable device which can be carried in the pocket when not inv use and which can be applied to the shoe or overshoe whendesired, for the purpose of preventing slipping on ice or other slippery surfaces.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a side view of an over-shoe provided with the device. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view. Fig. 3 is a section of one of the fasteners.

In the drawings, I show the device applied to a rubber over-shoe 6, but it can of course be applied to any other article of foot wear. In;one form the device consists of a set of small chains 7 which are at tached at one end to a central plate 8 having holes through which the end links of chains are looped. This plate will occupy a position directly under the heel, and v the chains will extend in different directions across the bottom of the heel. At their outer ends the chains are attached to one member 9 of a head and socket fastener, conveniently by use of a loop 11 to which the chain is connected, this loop being passed. around the stem 12 of the head member of the fastener. The socket member is indicated at 13, and this socket member is set in a hole in the side or upper of the shoe, so that the socket is exposed at the outer side of the shoe, and the head 9 can be snapped in to the socket to hold the parts together. This fastener may be any other suitable type of separable fastener, for the of the chains to the shoe.

Instead of the heel device shown, the device may consist of a single length of chain, extended across the sole of the shoe as indicated at 14: in Fig. 2, the ends of this chain being fastened by means of snap fas teners set in the upper of the shoe, so as to hold the chain in position across the sole of the shoe.

In use, the device may be fastened to the shoe by engaging the snap fasteners, and the chains will then extend across under the heel or the sole as the case may walks. hen not in use, the separable fasteners are detached or disconnected, and the little chains can then be conveniently carried in the pocket. The device is capable of quick and easy attachment or discon nection and will be found very serviceable for the purpose referred to.

The invention is not limited to the exact 1; An anti-slipping device for shoes, coniprisingsenarable fasteners one member of which is attached to the shoe, and a chain attached to the other member of the fasteners, said fasteners permitting the chains to be attached or detached as desired.

2. The combination with a shoe, of separable fasteners one member of which is set in the upper of the shoe, and a chain extending across under, the shoe, and connected at its ends to the other members of the separable fasteners.

3. The combinationwith a shoe, of separable fasteners of the head and socket type, the socket members of the fasteners being set in the shoe upper, and a cross chain connected to the head members of the fasteners and adapted to extend across under the bottom of the. shoe when the members of the fasteners are connected.

a. The combination with a shoe, of separable fasteners one member of each of which is set in the shoe upper above the heel, and cross chains connected at their ends to the other members of the separable fasteners and adapted to extend across under the heel of the shoe when the fasteners are connected.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signa ture in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK I'I. S'rErHA N, CLARE L. BooKMma.

be and serve to prevent slipping on icy I 

